Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1887-10-21


The victories won by the United States
troops in Mexico years ago have generally
been ascribed to the superior fighting quail
ties of the Americans over the Mexicans.
But Capt. Lester S. Bartlett, of the Spen-
Ger Rifle company, who was recently in
Mexico, mentioned this theory: "An old
Mexican soldier told me that it was the
American sharpshooteYs tkat broke up
their troops. All over Mexico you will
find what are called arroyas. They are
what we would call gulches, and occur
everywhere OH the plains. They have pre-
cipitous banks and sometimes men walk
into them without seeing them. They seem
to be the riffs at the bottom of a sea which
one day may have covered the country
The American ri1emen would drop into
these arroyas, which formed natural rifle
pits for them, and having superior rifles
for those days were able to pick off the
Mexicans before the latter got within
shooting distance with their bell mouth
guns The slaughter that resulted always
broke ND the MeXicans before they got
within fighting distance. New York
Tribune
une, "a Family Moves.
Society news in the daily papers docs a
great deal more than tell people what is
transpiring in the fashionable world. The
owners of moving cars watch the society
closely. As soon as they see that fam
lily is to change location from one city to
another, they go after them to see what
they have TO move end offer their SER
vices Then follows the man with storage
smthen Il sewing machine agent to see
rooin' anxthing in his line for sale,
if you have stss-s- furniture dealer.
then the second hand IA band cloth
and last the dealer in sccond4 NIL
ing, and perhaps Il piano dealer. When a
marriage is announced ahead for some
months, there Is the dresSmaI1er and dry
goods merchant to call ON the ladies', the
caterer to see what he can do for the table.
aBsl the florist 10 sec If his services are re-
quired. Tlris class Of people doubtless
work up large and profitable business in
that way.-physician IN Globe Democrat
Water as a aTedissne.
Ordinary drinking water. If taken in
large quantities, acts as 4 solvent and
diuretic, and also increases the persDira-
tion If the temperature OF the air lie high.
Taken in the quantity of one or two
quarts at time. tke siiluent effect OF
water is often sufficient to eliminate an
excess Of alcohol from tic blood, as after
taking too much wine. Another effect Of
large draughtS OF water is to make the
pulse slower and to diminish slightly the
normal temperature Of the body.
Increase of weight has been claimed as
a result of systematic vateT drinking on
retiring for the night The latest re-
searches do not bear Ut this conclusion.
Water thus taken win rcvent any actual
loss of weight. but it is ot shown that it
viii do ahytbing more With the addi-
ton OF a moderate = ianf. however. II
has often 4 decidedly ittning effect
Harpcr's Magazine. :
The Mystery of Ozone.
The curious substance known as ozone.
the nature CT which vas so long a
mystery, and about which SO many con-
hieting hypothesis l.aye been devised, IS
now becoming well knovn to Us. Ozone
IS denser form Of oxygen. Its specific
gravity ds "A that Of common oxyrcn be-
ing 10 and that OF hydrogen /. 1t Is
higlss probable that IFS molecules contain
three similar oxygen Gtons. In The con-
cenfratea state i IS fowerfnI irrftant
poison anu il IS very unstable, dec0mpos-
lne- Nita cxrlcsicn End wigh cyciEifcn Of
lacssss and eA11s i sssosst powerful acti0n
on oxidizabIe materials. London Lancek